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choco video
Free, open-source Opus Clip alternative for your Mac.
Drop in a podcast, talk or stream and get ranked vertical clips with word-timed captions, framed on whoever is talking. Your video never leaves your Mac: only transcript text goes to the clip picker you choose. No account, no watermark, MIT licensed.
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Yashvanth, and I built choco video.
I wanted to turn long podcasts and interviews into short clips, but every tool I tried uploaded my whole video, charged monthly minutes and watermarked the free tier. So I built one that runs on my own Mac.
What it does: you drop in a long video and get ranked vertical clips. Each clip starts and ends on a complete thought, keeps whoever is talking in frame and has word-timed captions burned in. Every clip shows why it was picked. A 48-minute interview became four finished clips in under 4 minutes on my M3 Pro.
Why it's different:
• Your video never leaves your Mac. Only the transcript text goes to the picker you choose, and with Apple's on-device model, nothing leaves at all.
• No account, no watermark, no monthly limit.
• Free and open source (MIT).
Honest limits: it needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14+, and Windows is coming later. It isn't notarized yet, so you click "Open Anyway" once, or use the one-line Terminal installer on the site. I built it with a lot of help from Claude Code.
I'd love to hear how the picks do on your own videos, and what would make you switch from what you use now. I'm here all day to answer questions 🙏
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About choco video on Product Hunt
“Free, open-source Opus Clip alternative for your Mac.”
choco video was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #137 on the daily leaderboard. Drop in a podcast, talk or stream and get ranked vertical clips with word-timed captions, framed on whoever is talking. Your video never leaves your Mac: only transcript text goes to the clip picker you choose. No account, no watermark, MIT licensed.
choco video was featured in Mac (103.9k followers), Open Source (69.1k followers), GitHub (41.5k followers) and Video (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 70.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted choco video?
choco video was hunted by Yashvanth S. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Yashvanth S
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Yashvanth, and I built choco video.
I wanted to turn long podcasts and interviews into short clips, but every tool I tried uploaded my whole video, charged monthly minutes and watermarked the free tier. So I built one that runs on my own Mac.
What it does: you drop in a long video and get ranked vertical clips. Each clip starts and ends on a complete thought, keeps whoever is talking in frame and has word-timed captions burned in. Every clip shows why it was picked. A 48-minute interview became four finished clips in under 4 minutes on my M3 Pro.
Why it's different:
• Your video never leaves your Mac. Only the transcript text goes to the picker you choose, and with Apple's on-device model, nothing leaves at all.
• No account, no watermark, no monthly limit.
• Free and open source (MIT).
Honest limits: it needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14+, and Windows is coming later. It isn't notarized yet, so you click "Open Anyway" once, or use the one-line Terminal installer on the site. I built it with a lot of help from Claude Code.
I'd love to hear how the picks do on your own videos, and what would make you switch from what you use now. I'm here all day to answer questions 🙏
Demo footage: CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.